Maggie's Memory Mystery Cache
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This cache is dedicated to the elephant Maggie and her many fans, both those who thought she should leave and those that thought she should stay. The cache is not at the coordinates listed. UPDATED with new puzzle questions and links and updated coordinates on 08-23-11. Question for E updated 06-12-2016.
This cache is a themed cache dedicated to wild animals and specifically to pachyderms. The property owner is aware of the cache. Please respect parking and during high use times, there is alternate parking in a pullout on the north side of the street. If you have some time, why not pay a visit to the friends Maggie left behind.
Congratulations, Malcore, on the FTF! That ducky should get along just fine with the other wildlife in the cache.
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The cache is located at
N 61 AA.BCD
W 149 47.EFG
Where
AA is the last two digits of the year in which Maggie was relocated from Alaska to California.
B is found by adding the two digits of an elephant's gestation period together.
C True=0. False=1. True or False? African Elephants are an endangered species.
D is the number of Amur tigers that came to the Alaska Zoo in 2008.
E is found by adding 3 to the number of Asian elephants at PAWS (As shown on the home page of their site when you visit the link).
F is the number of the correct answer to the question of how Maggie traveled from Alaska to her new state.
1 = by train
2 = by plane
3 = by barge
4 = by truck
G is the third digit in the number of pounds of food an elephant can eat in a day.
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TEXT from National Geographic:
African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their Asian cousins and can be identified by their larger ears that look somewhat like the continent of Africa. (Asian elephants have smaller, rounded ears.)
Elephant ears radiate heat to help keep these large animals cool, but sometimes the African heat is too much. Elephants are fond of water and enjoy showering by sucking water into their trunks and spraying it all over themselves. Afterwards, they often spray their skin with a protective coating of dust.
An elephant's trunk is actually a long nose used for smelling, breathing, trumpeting, drinking, and also for grabbing things—especially a potential meal. The trunk alone contains about 100,000 different muscles. African elephants have two fingerlike features on the end of their trunk that they can use to grab small items. (Asian elephants have one.)
Both male and female African elephants have tusks they use to dig for food and water and strip bark from trees. Males use the tusks to battle one another, but the ivory has also attracted violence of a far more dangerous sort.
Because ivory is so valuable to some humans, many elephants have been killed for their tusks. This trade is illegal today, but it has not been completely eliminated, and some African elephant populations remain endangered.
Elephants eat roots, grasses, fruit, and bark, and they eat a lot of these things. An adult elephant can consume up to 300 pounds (136 kilograms) of food in a single day.
These hungry animals do not sleep much, and they roam over great distances while foraging for the large quantities of food that they require to sustain their massive bodies.
Female elephants (cows) live in family herds with their young, but adult males (bulls) tend to roam on their own.
Having a baby elephant is a serious commitment. Elephants have a longer pregnancy than any other mammal—almost 22 months. Cows usually give birth to one calf every two to four years. At birth, elephants already weigh some 200 pounds (91 kilograms) and stand about 3 feet (1 meter) tall.
African elephants, unlike their Asian relatives, are not easily domesticated.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Znttvr fnlf: Lbh qba'g arrq gb ubc bire gur srapr gb svaq zl "gehax".
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